Nets guard Kyrie Irving suffered a facial contusion in the third quarter of Tuesday night’s game against the Bulls and will not return to the contest, the team announced.
Irving took an inadvertent elbow to the face from Bulls center Nikola Vucevic and was helped off by trainers. The seven-time NBA All-Star eventually walked to the locker room under his own power.
Before leaving the game due to injury, Irving recorded 13 points, five assists and three rebounds in nearly 21 minutes of action. The point guard came into the game averaging 27.4 points, 6.2 assists and 4.8 rebounds per game.
Brooklyn leads by 13 points in the fourth quarter. The Nets sit in second place in the Eastern Conference and three games for the top spot in the conference.
Irving missed all of training camp and most of the preseason during the 2020 season after suffering an orbital injury playing summer pickup.
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